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Fatma AydemirThe Guardian |
What is the thing I do 360 times a year – in other words, almost every day? It’s not that easy to say. I probably cook, if warming up leftovers...
I live on an island. I tend to forget this, but now with the last days of summer still perfect for a swim, I decide to drive an hour out of Berlin to...
“The point of comedy is to make fun of everyone,” a Berlin friend told me recently. What matters, he argued, is that you make yourself look silly...
It was the summer I graduated from secondary school, when Germans openly displayed their patriotism for the first time in decades. I had survived...
“Nazis eat döner kebabs in secret,” must be one of the dumbest slogans I have seen at German protests against the far right. Yes, the popularity...
There is something unsettling about sitting in a German theatre laughing at Nazis. How unsettling depends on the type of humour that prompts the...
When the Berlin international film festival’s co-director Mariette Rissenbeek declared in an interview last week that the festival doesn’t strive...
Anja sold my green sofa online. It was an emotional process, since over the years I had written two novels and survived several heartbreaks on that...